day 85heritage and crafts
unit 12 · culture & historyheritage and crafts
Talk about heritage and traditional crafts: relics, sites, archaeology, masters and apprentices.
today’s words
- 遗产 yíchǎn · heritage; inheritance
- 文物 wénwù · cultural relic, artefact
- 国宝 guóbǎo · national treasure
- 瓷器 cíqì · porcelain, china
- 园林 yuánlín · classical garden
- 古迹 gǔjì · historic site
- 遗址 yízhǐ · ruins, archaeological site
- 现存 xiàncún · to be still in existence
- 考古 kǎogǔ · archaeology; to do archaeology
- 痕迹 hénjì · trace, mark
- 技艺 jìyì · craft, skill
- 师父 shīfu · master (teacher of a craft)
- 徒弟 túdì · apprentice
- 传承 chuánchéng · to pass on (and carry on)
- 继承 jìchéng · to inherit, carry on
- 延续 yánxù · to continue, carry on
- 融合 rónghé · to blend, fuse
- 严 yán · strict
- 系列 xìliè · series
- 显著 xiǎnzhù · notable, marked
- 看似 kànsì · to seem, look like
sentences
- 这座园林是现存最老的古迹之一，也是世界文化遗产。 · This garden is one of the oldest surviving historic sites, and a World Heritage site.
- 考古人员在遗址里发现了很多文物。 · Archaeologists found many relics at the site.
- 这件瓷器是博物馆收藏的国宝，平时不展出。 · This piece of porcelain is a national treasure in the museum’s collection and isn’t usually on display.
- 这面墙上还能看到一千年前的痕迹。 · You can still see marks from a thousand years ago on this wall.
- 他继承了师父的技艺，让这门技艺延续了下去。 · He took over his master’s craft and kept it alive.